Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

I think you have to have a high football IQ. Obviously, you have to have the physical ability to run fast and get open. But you also have to have a high football IQ.

I think we have more athleticism, I think we have more pace and that's going to be important to deal with Ghana.

It was just weird. Once you get the ball and you get in a situation, it's like haywire, everything goes crazy, and everybody's running around. You don't know who to pass it to or what to do. So Coach said just slow down and just make the right play. I tried to get the best look I could at the basket.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

He can run, but he can't hide.

You can run but you can't hide

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. This is the critical lesson of improve, too, and it is also a key to understanding a puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random.

I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.

Bernard King is the only guy that ever scared the hell out of me.

Same reason why young women on juries are not a good idea, they don't get it. They're not in that same life experience of paying the bills, doing the mortgage, kids, community, crime, education and health care. They're like healthy and hot and running around without a care in the world... I just think, excuse them, so they can go back on Tinder and Match.com.

I think I've proven that I'm throw-first, and then run if I need to.

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.

You can't let nobody run your train.

Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player

Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.